Strange and Wonderful

It's been a while since I've actively updated this blog, as I've had many other obligations and duties in life this past year. Having the opportunity to express thoughts in a public forum is, quite frankly, overrated in today's world. Between email, FaceBook, YouTube, blogging, and your cell phone, there's plentiful opportunities to talk.

No, what I really appreciate is that so many people wanted to listen. There's such an information overload these days that it's actually a challenge to decide what's worth your time. This past year I confess I've been doing a lot of listening myself and not much talking.

As with all blogs, the BrainWorks blog has undergone blog drift, the phenomenon whereby a blog gravitates away from the original subject and towards whatever is on the author's mind. So I thought it would be nice to do a retrospective of this blog, categorizing all previous posts according to topic. Not everything I write is Kant, but I hope it's not all Nietzsche either.

AI - General Discussion:

• Artificial Intelligence is Hard!
• Artificial Causality
• Two Kinds of AI
• Putting it all Together
• Release Retrospective
• BrainWorks 1.0.1 Released
• Little Lies
• The Year In Review

AI - Routing and Aiming:

• You've Got My Attention
• A Journey of One Thousand Miles
• Turn Left at the Quad Damage
• It's All in the Wrist
• Making Things Right
• Scouting For Trouble
• Dodging The Question
• Do Not Want!

AI - Objective selections:

• The Rambo Problem
• It's a Hit!
• Taking Action
• At the Heart of it All
• Good Enough for Government Work
• Getting it "Just Right"
• Making Things Worse
• The Power of Spite
• Sitting on the Fence
• Dude, Where's My Rocket Launcher?
• Groupthink
• Nowhere To Run

Programming:

• Care to Comment?
• Things in the Attic
• My Biggest Programming Fear
• A Peculiar Bug
• A Simple Solution
• Project Planning
• Needle In A Haystack
• The Last Place You Look
• Ballistic Programming

Philosophy:

• The Attitude of the Knife
• Parenting
• Abstract Art
• Mission Impossible
• Ignorance Is Bliss
• A Change of Perspective
• First Causes
• The Meaning of Truth
• Ride With Hitler
• Only When It's Funny
• Squeezing The Margins
• We Can Worry About That Later

Education:

• Mental Filters
• Learning to Learn
• Follow Your Dream
• Self Education

Religion:

• In the Cleft of the Rock
• The Man Behind the Curtain
• The Emperor's New God
• God of Stone
• Love Thy Neighbor

Science:

• Parallel Evolution
• Armchair Neuroscience
• Anatomy Of The Brain

Society:

• Social Mentality
• Boot Camp
• I Like This Duke
• Living In The Right
• The Meaning of Life
• Bring The Future To Pass
• Optional Law
• Being Mr. Right
• A Pearl of Great Price
• Badass

Games:

• Give It A Go
• Gaming The System
• Mind Candy
• Less Is More
• The Theory Of Fun
• Building a Better Wizard
• Best of Both Worlds
• Imitating Life

But if I were to summarize all of it, it is this:

Life is strange and wonderful!